{"id":1300,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:16:07","slug":"formosa-ketch-for-circumnavigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/formosa-ketch-for-circumnavigating\/","title":{"rendered":"Formosa Ketch for Circumnavigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Hi Steve, [What are your] opinions on the Formosa design and is it a capable bluewater vessel i.e. circumnavigator. Regards, Scott <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p>Hi Scott: That&#8217;s a tough question. There are several issues. The first is the seaworthiness of the design, and I don&#8217;t know enough about the boat to comment on that. The second is how well the boat is built. There are a lot of excellent boats built in Taiwan. Some yards there do work as good as the good yards in the US. But there is also a lot of unbelievable garbage that&#8217;s been produced. Bottom line&#8211;a good skipper and crew can make it around in almost anything. And a crew lacking in basic skills can get in trouble in the newest, best built boat in the world. I guess I have not really answered your question&#8211;problem is, there are no easy answers here. Good Hunting&#8211;Steve Dashew <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Steve, [What are your] opinions on the Formosa design and is it a capable bluewater vessel i.e. circumnavigator. Regards, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/formosa-ketch-for-circumnavigating\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-the-right-boat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36534,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/36534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}